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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

The following notice has been issued
by Union Lodge No. 10, 1. o. o. r. of
this city:
Your attention is called to the pre-
amble and resolutions adopted by the
lodge. printed below:
Whereas, The lodge is DESTROYS of
Immediately erecting substantial and
necessary improvements in and around
MapleWood cemetery. to-wit: among
other things, and handsome cut-stone
and ornamental iron fence, drives,
walks; grades, trees and shrubbery;
and,
whereas, A number of persons have
buried one or more of their relatives or
friends on different lots in said cemete-
ny which have never been bought or
paid for; and,
Whereas, Other people are DESTROYS
of purchasing said lots; and,
Whereas, The lodge is DESTROYS of
giving an opportunity, first, to those
having relatives or friends buried on
unpurchaSed lots to first purchase, then
to receive deed and take title thereto.
Therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the lodge, that the
cemetery agent be and is hereby in
structed to correspond with all such
persons having relatives or friends
buried on unpaid or Impoverished lots
in MapIewood cemetery to which they
hold no title. that they be given until
October list, 1887, TO purchase said lots,
receive deed and take title thereto.
Resolved, That on and after October
LIST, 1887, the cemetery agent and his
assistants be and are hereby instructed
to take mp all bodies now buried on un-
purchased lots and remove them to
the potters field and properly bury
them there.
Address all communications, Gene
terry Agent, box 916, Emporia, Kas."
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Teachers, Association.

The Lyon County Teachers associ-
alton met promptly at 2 p. M. on last
Saturday. There were about seventy
teachers present.
After the inaugural address by Prof.
j. II. Williams, a very interesting
paper was read by G. II. Washburn on
1.-The Relation of Teachers to Pupils
and Patrons Topics bearing on the
subject were discussed by Professors
Kelly, Bishop, Davidson and Miss An
drews.
The solos by Mr.. Phillips, accompa-
MED on the piano by Prof, Moss, were
very entertaining.
Mr.. j. T. Burton, after distributing
maps, gave very instructive talk on
Lyon county. The interest manifested
showed the appreciation of Mr.. Bur
tons visit.
That much could be said in three
minutes was proven by Prof. Dinsmore
in his model lesson on the county.
The teachers of the county should all
avail themselves of these meetings.
The session holds from to p. m. on
the second Saturday of each month at
the High school building in Emporia.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15
HLszORKnAL KA0rs.

In 1903 President Jefferson bought
from Napoleon the province Of Louisi
ana, including nearly all Kansas, for a
little more than S2S 400, 900.
In 1904 Kansas became a part of
Louisiana, and the laws of the district
were made by William HarTison-af-
forwards president acting with the
judge Of that territory.
In 1905 congress changed the district
of Louisiana, embracing Kansas and
Missouri. In 1912 the state of Louisi-
ana was formed and the remainder of
the territory was changed to the terri
tory of Missouri. In 1918 by treaty
with Spain, the western boundary of
the Louisiana purchase was adjusted.
In.the same year the first steamboat
assembled the Missouri river. In 1920
congress passed an act enabling the
people of Missouri territory to become
state. and prohibited slavery in all
the Louisiana purchase north of thirty
six degrees, thirty seconds north lati-
tude. The next year Missouri entered
the union as a slave state. St. Louis
then had a population of less than
{, 900.
In 1923 the first wagon train passed
through Kansas to New Mexico, which
was the beginning of the commerce of
the plains. In addition to the native
Indian population, Indians from other
states were given reservations in Kan
sas. Until 1854 the only white settlers
in Kansas were those connected with
Indian missions and traders, or whites
who had married Indians and adopted
their mode of life.
The Santa Fe trail. a wagon road to
New Mexico from Missouri, was estab-
lished in 1925. Kansas was organized
as territory in 1854. The law of 1920
declaring her free was repealed, and
the new law opened it to freedom or
slavery, as the settlers might choose.
The north and south entered into a
contest to people the territory, and the
contest led to civil war, called the
border troubles, and cost 200 lives and
$40, 00O, 900 in money.
In 1851 Kansas was admitted into
the union as free state. The war
was waged with undated fury till the
close of the rebellion in 1885, and nearly
every inhabitant was in the army. 1t
is during the past fifteen years that
emigration has been drawn to this
state, and during that period she has
grown more rapidly than any other
state in the uniOn.-Lawrence Journal.
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Board of EducatioD.
GARFIELD BUILDING, Sept. 18th.

GARFIELD BUILDING, Sept. 18th.
Board met as per call of President.
Present, J. w. Eastman, w. S. Jay,
D. Kaynaston, D. w. Morris, C. p.
Thels, Thos. p. Hall, R, II. Edmiston
and VIM. F. Ewing.
D. w. Morris, President, in the chair.
The Treasurer was instructed by the
Board to collect a fee of 50 per month
for the intermediate grade and $3.50 for
the High School, according to Rule 3S
of this board to-wit: Children of nom
resident parents may be admitted to
the grades by paying a tuition of 50 per
month, and for the High School, by
paying $3.50 per month.
On motion, the action of Superin-
tendent Klock in appointing w. II.
Dudley as a teacher in the Fourth
Ward was approved.
T. P. Hall was instructed to have
the well repaired and any other re-
pairs necessary at Sixth Avenue school
building.
Mr.. Z. G. Condit was present and
with the Board examined the furnaces
in the Garfield Building, and after
making careful estimate Mr.. Condit
informed the Board that he could put
said furnaces in good repair for the
sum of not to exceed $500.
On motion, Mr.. Condit was employed
to repair said furnaces.
There being no further business the
Board adjourned.
VIM. F. EWING, Clerk.
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THE st. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem, J
in reply to another democratic paper in
st. Louis-the Republican-has the fol-
lowing sensible comments:
The privilege of stretching a Cleve-
land portrait banner across street is
one which may be exercised on all
proper occasions without giving offense
to any sensible republican. Nor can
we rate very high the good sense or
good taste of those republican mem
berS of the G. A. Il. who regard such a
banner as a challenge to them to be no
ticed by marching around it and trail
ing their flags as they pass.
But that is matter they have the
right to decide for themselves. If they
choose to regard the hanging of such a
banner over the route of their process
sion as partisan act, an international
rebuke of their well-known views
of the presidents vetoes, their right
to retort the rebuke and reassert their
opinions in the way referred to is just
as clear, and the exercise of it is not more
offensive to good order or good manners
than the act of the democrat who seiZeS
upon such an occasion and employs
such n method of challenging their
feelings toward the president. 1t is
we'll known that they have refused to
march under Blaine banners or other
candidate banners hung across the
route of their professions at times
when there was dissention among
themselves about republican candi-
dates. 1t is well known that great
many of them will insist on turning
aside and trailing their flags if they
find Cleveland campaign flag sus-
pended across the route of their pro-
cession. All we have to say is that
their action in doing so is not more
questionable as matter of personal
liberty or good taste than the act of
deliberately and with purely partisan
intent putting them to such test.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15
AMARRRT SQUARE.

If there is any one thing more need
ed than another in Emporia it is a
market square, or other place where
farmers can meet and dispose of their
produce to customers directly, instead
of, as now, having to ramble all over
the city attempting to sell or trade off
their truck, and generally only sue
ceeding in trading it off to grocers at
ruinous discount and then having to
take their pay ont in orders for, posi-
bly,, things they do not actually need,
instead of getting fair price in cash
for their goods, as most other people do.
Not only would a market place be =
splendid thing for the farmer, but it
would be even better for the consumer,
for people could then go to mar
ket in the morning and pur-
chase vegetables, eggs, but
ter, ETC., from first hands, with almost
certainty that they were new and
fresh. Besides this, the per cent al
lowed to the middle man would pos
sibly be cut off, and the farmer get a
better price for his wroduce and the
buyer pay less than he does now for an
inferior article.
Should this market place idea go
into operation, it should be carried on
in a method similar to that of other
places east and north of Kansas. That
is no person should be allowed to pur-
chase country produce for the purpose
of reselling it until after a certain
fixed hour-say 8 O'Clock a. m. by
this method the consumer would have
the first chance, and those DESTROYS of
buying to sell at profit would get the
advantage of lower prices always OBJ
tainable after regular market hours.
The Newton Republican in referring
to this subject, says: winfield is
talking up the market square" bust
ness. We hope our progressive sister
city will do more than talk. Fol-
years Topeka has regularly discussed
the question but still she has no mar
ket. Here in Newton we have talked
and talked and talked and yet ouI
housekeepers trudge from one end OF
Main street to the other, and waste
much valuable time as well as strength
in the necessary work of getting some
thing to eat. All this could be done
away with if our worthy mayor and
city council would set aside one square
or certain section of a street for mar
ket purposes. The housekeepers coulC
settle this matter if they only realize
their power, now that women have the
right to vote atmunicipal elections"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

THE car stove will gather in no more
victims on the New York Central rail-
road. The road abolished that deadly
device at the close of last winter, and
now announces that its cars will be
heated by steam during the cold wealth
or hereafter until some better and safer
system of heating is developed. The
law prohibiting the use of stoves on
railroads in the state of New York is
undoubtedly the cause of this change.
But experience in Massachusetts has
abundantly proven that steam can be
made to give steadier and more equa-
BILE heat in cars than the coal fire does,
without any of the perils which the
coal fire entails. AS steam is as cheap
and convenient also as the fire is, leg
islatures in every state should, at their
next meeting, declare that the stove
should go.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

THIS is the manner in which the
Pennsylvania Farmer, a labor paper,
talks about the socialists:
The socialists of New York are VOW
ing vengeance against the united labor
party because they were not admitted
to the Syracuse convention.
The socialists are queer set. They
have party of their own all the year
round, except election day, when they
vote the ticket of one of the old parties
that is, such of them as can vote.
The majority of the socialists in the
United States are Foreigners and never
became citizens of this country. Their
flag is not the stars and stripes, and
until they take the oath of allegiance
to our republic and recognize our flag
and constitution they should not be
permitted to take seat III any pOliti-
cal convention of loyal American citi-
ZenS.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15
A WELSH PAPER FOR EMPOR1A

Several of our Welsh citizens met to-
gether Monda night for the purpose of
considering the proposition of Rev. w.
Davies Evans of Ohio in reference to
the publication in Emporia of a Welsh
weekly newspaper. This want has
long been felt among the Welsh popu-
lation OF the eastern and western states.
The present papers published in Utica,
New York, and Pittsburg, Pennsylva-
mia, give very little news of the so-called
far west, consequently the interest
taken in them is very limited.
The great craze and thirst again
among the Welsh-speaking population
of the east for a knowledge of the
western states, their advantages,
cities, etc, are so great as to justify
the publication of a paper to meet the
requirements of all, and large sub
scription list has already been obtained
with but little effort.
If published in Emporia it will prove
an effectual organ in booming our city,
stating.our advantages, attractions as a
place of residence, educational facili-
ties, with the State Normal school, the
Presbyterian college, our efficient and
thorough public schools, our numerous
churches, ETC., which so far remains to
great extent in a state of oblivion, in
viting immigration of capital and labor
in this direction.
In politics it will be independent, adj
vocating the claims of those who are
known for honesty, integrity and abil-
ity, always aiming to do justice to all
without favor or malice. It is also
understood that while attempting to
gain the support and good will of all
it is in no way intended as an antago-
mist to THE News or any newspaper
published at present in this city
taking the feature of national, and
not as local or county paper, as its
circulation is intended to reach from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, meeting
the demands of those who feel the
necessity of a paper published in their
own native tongue.
The proposition was favorably re-
ceived and another meeting called fol
next Tuesday evening, when decisive
steps will be taken and guarantee Civ
en- for 2 1000 subscribers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

BOSTON has a curious law suit. The
Boston Base Ball ub.association sued
Mary Yeadley aud John Reardon for
defrauding them. The defendants own
two houses adjacent to the ball grounds
upon the roof of which they have had a
number of seats accommodating over
one hundred persons which they let out
for twenty-five cents a piece during the
games to spectators. The seats give a
commanding view to the grounds, as
the houses are built on an eminence
and no artificial arrangement of the
association can shut off the view. The
admission to the ball grounds is fifty
cents and fifty cents more If you want
a reserved seat. The house tops are
covered with canvas and beat the
grand stand conveniences all to pieces.
The association claims that the ball
game is their exclusive property, and
they let the spectacle to whom they
please at a stated sum; that the sight
of the game is really their property
and the defendants have stolen it. The
law of 'S5 regulating buildings, which
prohibits stand or staging on house
tops to be used for observation purpo-
ses, is also invoked. For the latter the
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

Tue longest street railway in the
world according TO the Scientific Ameri-
can, will be that with which it is
proposed to connect number of towns
near BuenOs Ayres, South America,
and which will have a total length of
200 miles. The road will also be ex-
ceptional in that sleeping cars viii be
run upon it for the comfort of the
passengers. Horses will be employed
as a motive power instead of steam,
because horses are cheap, fuel is dear
and the people are slow. The price of
two tons of coal will buy a horse with
its harness. The sleeping cars and all
the other equipments of the line, are
being supplied by company, and
these cars ''are stated to be curiosities."
They are four in number, IS feet in
length, and are furnished with four
berths each, which are made to roll
up when not in use. The cars are fur
nished with lavatorieS. water-coolers,
linen-presses, and other conveniences,
and are finished throughout with
mahogany. The other rolling stock
comprises four double-decked open
cars, twenty platform cars, twenty
gondola cars, six refrigerator cars,
four poultry cars, furnished with coOps,
eight cattle cars, two derrick cars for
lifting heavy material, and 200 box
cars
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

IN little while this earth win not
be decent place of habitation. An
earth without vast forests cannot main
tain its inland water supply and the
proper soil conditions for the needs of
agriculture. Our forests are disap-
pearing with frightful rapidity. In
this country we have less than 5OO,-
100000 acres of forest area, and the
consumption is more than 20 600, OOO, 600
cubic feet. This does not include the
enormous annual losses from forest
fires. The forests within easy reach
will be practically exhausted before
any new crop started can be ready for
use, or can be of any material service
in maintaining the proper RAINFALL
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

THE trial of the train wreckers at
Wyandotte will cost more than the
court house in which the farce was en-
acted; something like $4,000. Two or
three of the participants in the crime
have confessed; but still the law is so
lame that it has been unable to convict
them. Law is rapidly becoming the
disgrace rather than the honor of the
country. We expect to see the day
when people will submit TO be robbed
rather than TO go to law about it. Al
ready, in every town in the country,
there are plenty of men who go to law
on all occasions, right or wrong, to
scare people with whom they have
business into being imposed upon
Atchison Globe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

The Statesman, Scholor and True
American, set an example worthy of
reflection for all True Americans.
Healing wounds that no methods ex-
cept those used by Heaps CamphOrated
Arnica Salve which is sold on its merits
for any use that salve can be used.
No cure, no pay. For sale by the
following druggists. Ben Wheldon
Chas. Ryder, j. a. Moore, d. w
Hainer, and ID. w. Morris.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15
GeneraIGrnn1,a

Fame will always grow brighter with
age. Balyeat's Fig Tonic requires
only trial to illustrate whether the
enfeebled constitution win change to
one of stout and robust form and the
rudy glow of perfect health will APP
pear where disease once was. Nocure,
no pay. Price so cents and 81. For
sale by the following druggists: Ben
Wheldon, Chas Ryder, J. A. Moore,
d. w. Hainer, and d. W. Morris.
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Camp Meeting.

The union labor party will hold a
camp meeting at Soden's grove this
week, beginning tomorrow morning.
Among the speakers of prominence are
John Davis of Junction City, Captain
Bell of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. Todd
of Michigan and Clemens of Topeka.
Mrs. Todd will probably address the
citizens in the Whitley opera house, so
as to give all the ladies an opportunity
of hearing her. Professor Vincent of
Iowa will also be in attendance. The
meeting will end with a county con-
on Saturday.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

BURGLARS are sometimes so fastid-
dious as to decline to take anything
but gold coin, but all members of the
profession are not so hard to please. A
detective recalls the case of a thief
who stole hive of bees of another who
stole skeleton from dime museum,
of another who relieved menagerie of
a case of rattlesnakes, of another who
took a cigar store Indian, and of still
another who confisticated the clothing
of baby that had not arrived in the
world
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15
The Grand Jury.

The grand jury met some days ago
and there has been considerable inter
est manifested as to what progress they
are making. Several indictments were
sent to the court when the recess was
taken last Saturday. Some arrests have
been made on these indictments. The
jury is still at work and it would seem
from the number of witnesses sub
p9naed that they are giving the NUM-
cipal, county and state affairs a thor
ough airing. They have number one
man as foreman and one that will see
that every point under investigation
will be shown up in its true light. They
have examined some two or three hun
bred witnesses already.
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our EXCHANGES are handing this puz-

OUR exchanges are handing this puz-
zle around among themselves. GA
freight train one mile in length stopped
at station with the caboose just OPP
posite the depot. The conductor got
orders to move his train to the next
station, which was just five miles dis
tant. He gave the engineer the signal
to move, which he did, while the con-
ductor walked over the train to the en-
CINE and got there just as the locomo-
tive reached the station, where he got
off. The question is, how far did he
walk, or how far did ne ride?''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

THERE is COW in this CITY that
knows thing or two if she is buta cow.
Her favorite food is the red geranium,
although other flowers, shrubbery. and
even lawn grass, if choice, are eaten.
She can recognize the pound master
two blocks away, and will run from
policeman as naturally as any other
thief. She can open garden gate as
handly as a person, and
will always close it after her
herself unless hard pressed by some
would-be captor. A committee of
prominent citizens has been appointed
to place her in custody, but she has al
ready learned their identity, and not
one can get within gunshot of her.
Garden City Herald.
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THE Fort Scott Monitor emphatically
denies that prohibition is an injury to
a town, and cites Fort Scott rs an ex-
ample. 1t says: Fort Scott was
among the first cities of Kansas to en-
force the prohibitory law, and there is
not to-day any place in the city where
intoxicating drinks are sold. BY the
United States Census of 1880, the same
year that the prohibitory amendment
was passed, the population of Fort
Scott was $500, now it covers twice the
territory and has "A population of Is, 600,
while the business interests of the city
have increased three hundred per
cent -
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In the Whole Hideous Catalogue

OF diseases, there were none which,
previous to the discovery of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, Offered more formid-
able resistance to the old fashioned
modes of treatme MT than the group of
maladies which, under the collective
name or malarial disease, afflicted
entire communities that suffered hope
lessly. Chills and fever, dumb ague,
ague cake and bilious remittent were
once regarded as well nigh incurable.
Now it rejoices the hearts of thousands
who reside in districts periodically sub
jected to tn e visitation of malaria, to
feel certain that in the Bitters they
possess a certain defense against the
scourge, a sure means of expelling its
poison from the system. To the settler
in the far west, the new emigrant
thitheE, and to travellers and tourists
by land and sea, the possession of this
pleasant safeguard is q guaranty of
safety from diseases which they might
vainly seek from any other source.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-15

WE find the following in an Iowa ex-
change. 1t will probably be news to
the people of Kansas:
A ticket composed entirely of wo-
men was recently nominated for city
election in Syracuse. Kansas, and the
bold bad men who did so considered it
a capital joke until after election,
when they discovered that the ladies'
ticket was elected by an overwhelming
majority. The city government is now
in the hands of the feminines and
the lords of creation are scratching
their heads to see where the joke comes
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